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WE'VE ADDED EVEN MORE FILMS TO OUR SPRING 2024 PROGRAMME - AT A GREAT NEW VENUE!
We're very pleased to be screening at Nowhere Cafe and Bar, Norridge Bottom, Holmfirth.
Our April run at Nowhere will be on Wednesdays - afternoon/evening. The cinema room at Nowhere seats 24 people, so booking to ensure a seat is essential for all films. Please book online (click on the film you want to see to be taken to booking). Please note, a booking fee applies for online purchases EXCEPT for free events.
Nowhere serves hot and cold drinks as well as very good food. If you plan to eat before the film, please book a table direct with Nowhere on 01484 246732 or visit their website to see menus and place booking.
OTHER VENUES:
The Civic, Holmfirth
Films screening
Saturday 27 April 2pm Klimt and The Kiss
Saturday 27 April 7pm The Zone of Interest
More screenings Saturday/Sunday afternoon/evening throughout April, May, June
On door (cash only) admission £5 or book online (pls note, online booking fee applies)
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Hepworth Village Hall
Films screening second Friday of every month
12 April Return To Seoul, 17 May Polite Society, 14 June Blue Jean
more info www.hepworthvillagehall.org.uk
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Farnley Tyas Community Cinema at St Lucius Church
Films screening third Friday of every month
more info www.almondburywithfarnleytyaschurches.org
Dir. Paul Sng (UK 2024, 80mins PG)
Riveting portrait of superb but forgotten photographer of working-class Britain in the 70s, Tish Murtha.
As featured in this week's Guardian
Screening at NOWHERE CAFE BAR, HOLMFIRTH - limited seating, book online to secure your seat.
If you wish to eat at Nowhere prior to seeing the film, please book direct with Nowhere on 01484 246732 or via Nowhere, Holmfirth
Dir. Ali Ray (UK 2023, 90 mins 12)
Following the success of Vermeer, a voyage around Klimt’s Vienna and a deep dive into his erotic and obsessional world surrounding his most famous painting The Kiss.
Dir. Jonathan Glazer (UK/Poland/US 2023, 106mins 12A)
BAFTA winner. An original and disturbing take on the Holocaust loosely based on Martin Amis’s novel. The commandant of Auschwitz and family strive for a dream life in a house and garden next door to the camp.
Dir. Jonathan Demme (US 1984, 88mins PG)
Considered to be the greatest concert film of all time, featuring Talking Heads' most memorable songs performed at the Hollywood Pantanges Theatre in December 1983.
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel (Denmark 2023, 127mins 15)
Mads Mikkelsen is at his very best in this wonderfully produced and entirely enjoyable epic style ‘Western’ set in 18th century Denmark as an impoverished war hero faces a merciless nobleman his attempt to tame a wasteland.
Dir. Alexander Payne (US 2023, 120mins 15)
Payne directs a beautifully scripted 70s-style classic. Curmudgeonly Paul Giametti has to stay behind for the College Christmas holiday with the cook and a student for company.
Great Holmfirth stuff here:
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